Holocaust Remembrance Day

For 90-year-old Nancy Apfelroth, the memories of surviving the Holocaust are still strong.

“I was 12 when the war started and 14 when I and my parents were taken into the camp,” she said. “My mom was just 41 and my dad was 45 when they were killed. If people ask me how I survived, I just say ‘don’t give up’ and I stuck with my beliefs.”

Apfelroth, a member of Temple B’nai Israel in Aurora, spoke during a Holocaust memorial service at the temple Wednesday night.

Apfelroth said she was freed by Russians who gave her a gun “and allowed me to live for revenge.”

She said her hate for the Germans nearly drove her to extract that revenge until she realized it would make...

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